Trying to configure Spam Assassin
I have been trying to configure iMS 5.2 with hotfix 1.24 on a Win2000 system, I have the Delegated Admin server also installed.
The system is currently installed and working, I can send mail in and outbound on the system and am using the LDAP server for user id/password management.
My problem generally revolve around the use of a SpamAssassin daemon I have running on a remote system.
The spamd daemon process is currently running on the remote system and I can detect if a connection attempt is made to filter an incoming message.
I don't assume you are familiar with spamd/spamc but let me just say that I can process messages via the client process spamc via the server process spamd with no problem.
My problem deals with the fact that inspite of the fact that I have made changes to the configuration of the iMS 5.2 server to activate spam filtering using SpamAssassin, I can detect no attempts by the iMS 5.2 server to send the email to the spamd server, and am having problems tracking if the module or (.dll in this case) is being called.
ON a higher level I am not sure if the logging facility is configured correctly.
The questions are as follows:
1) I'm not sure about how I am suppose to view the log files, it seems they are viewable as an html text file e.g. http://www.x3ci.com/qtmp/maillog.txt but they are unreadable/garbled in Windows notepad,
a) does the "Messageing server Console" provide a means to view the log file? When I look, it seems that the default path is scrambled for the intended log e.g. http://www.x3ci.com/qtmp/iMS_snap1.bmp
b) is this (see question a) why the Messaging Server Console is unable to display or show stats on the file when I clk on the "content" tab? e.g. http://www.x3ci.com/qtmp/iMS_snap1.bmp ?
c) is there a config file under the iMS 5.2 structure where I can see the full path file name for the admin log and the default log?
2) As I stated previously I am trying to verify if an attempt is being made to contact the spamd daemon process for spam filtering, I have no idication this is happening from the spamd side, in order to tryto track what is happening on the iMS 5.2 server side, I tried to follow the instructions for turning on debugging, to this extent I have added the lines required under the option.dat file ( http://www.x3ci.com/qtmp/option.dat ) to enable SpamAssassin :
Brightmail_Library=D:\Server5\bin\msg\imta\lib\libspamass.dll
Brightmail_config_file=D:\Server5\msg-mail02\imta\config\spama.dat
I have verified that libspamass.dll does reside under the full path I designated.
I have also created the file spama.dat (http://www.x3ci.com/qtmp/spama.dat)
under the full path designated by Brightmail_config_file .
I turned on debugging by the following actions :
Adding the lines :
MM_DEBUG=5
log_message_id=1
to the option.dat file ( http://www.x3ci.com/qtmp/option.dat )
and adding the key words master_debug slave_debug to both the tcp_local and tcp_intranet lines of the imta.cnf file (http://www.x3ci.com/qtmp/imta.dat) although I am not quite sure if this is required.
In spite of these actions I can detect no attempt by the iMS server to call spamd, here is a snippet of the activity log (http://www.x3ci.com/qtmp/maillog.txt) while it indicates network external messages coming inbound to the system, I see no evidence that they are being forwarded to spamd.
Any Idea what might be wrong here?
Please not, suffixes of file names under http://www.x3ci.com/qtmp have been changed to make them viewable via a browser e.g. imta.dat (as listed in the x3ci.com directory) is actually imta.cnf on the server, as it should be. Also imsimta refresh and imsimta cnbuild have been invoked after these file changes with out error.
